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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8708 Maria De Paola
Francesca Gioia
Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment
We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 37-53)
C93, D03, I23, J71
8707 Anastasia Danilov
Christine Harbring
Bernd Irlenbusch
Helping in Teams
We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards ...
(revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.)
M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
8706 Ruth Ben-Yashar
Leif Danziger
When Is Voting Optimal?
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. ...
(published in: Economic Theory Bulletin, 2015, 3 (2), 341–356)
D70, D71
8705 Aaron K. Chatterji
Michael Findley
Nathan M. Jensen
Stephan Meier
Daniel Nielson
Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research ...
(published in: Strategic Management Journal, 2016, 37 (1), 116–132, )
C93, D03, L10
8701 Corrado Andini
Fixed Exchange-Rate Policy and Real Wage Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has ...
(revised version published in: International Economics, 2023, 175 (C), 158-170)
J31, C23
8698 Naci Mocan
Luiza Pogorelova
Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 509-539)
I21, Z1
8697 Deniz Gevrek
Z. Eylem Gevrek
Cahit Guven
Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, 41 (3), 298 – 328. (ABDC ranking: B))
I2, J15, J24
8696 Tim Kautz
James J. Heckman
Ron Diris
Bas ter Weel
Lex Borghans
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: ...
(also available as: OECD Education Working Papers, 2014, No. 110 )
D01, I20, J24
8695 Tanika Chakraborty
Olga Nottmeyer
Simone Schüller
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Estimating the effect of 'ethnic capital' on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 551–569. )
R23, J15, I21
8694 Julio Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio Giolito
The Impact of Age of Entry on Academic Progression
Using an RD-design and public educational administrative data for Chile, we study the impact of age of entry on children outcomes. Different from previous studies, we are able to track this impact on ...
(revised version published in: Nuno Crato and Paolo Paruolo (eds.), Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2018)
A21, I24, I25, I28
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